When did our ancestors first use fire? That’s been a long-running debate, and now a new study concludes the earliest firm evidence comes from about 1 million years ago in a South African cave. The ash and burnt bone samples found there suggest fires frequently burned in that spot, researchers said Monday. Continue Reading

I knid of like the way they showed it in ‘Quest Of Fire’ where some in the tribe would be responsible to maintain a small fire in a container so they could always start a camp fire. You could about feel the anguish when it got dropped into the swamp and they had to just walk the earth to try to find more……Kind of amazing when you think of how we basically take something like fire for granted because we pretty much know how to get it started even if stranded in most places…….Might be a bit tough to find wood in the Antartic….But I don’t expect to get stranded there too often anyway…..